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US Senate hopeful Markey points to long record - 0 Comments

BOSTON — As a teenager growing up in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, Edward Markey remembered hearing how John F. Kennedy was too Irish, too Catholic and too much a product of Boston politics to be elected president.

For Markey, an Irish Catholic kid from Malden, Kennedy's victory was both a triumph and an inspiration.

"In his inaugural address, he said that public service was an opportunity to do God's work here on Earth," Markey said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "He not only inspired me but inspired a whole generation to think of public service."